Paint-mixer.



G. VOSS.

PAINT MIXER.

APPLICATION man sPT.22, 1913.

Patented May 11, 1915.

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mea-sia Specification of Letters Patent.

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vApplication filed September 22, 1.83.3. Serial Ho. wlll.

T all rwhom it may concern Be `it known that l, Gos'rewlossa citlzen of the United States, residing at Madison, in the county oi Dane and State of .'Wisconsin, have invented-a new and useful Faint-v Mixer, of which the following is a specification.-

My invention relates to paint mixing machines, and the objects are, to provide a paint mixer which by a special arrangement of propeller-shaped dashers will thoroughly agitate, stir and mix the various ingredients of the paint, c and to malte such vlill mixing device operable by either hand power `orv other motive power where the latter is obtainable.

in the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a. side elevation of my improved paint mixer with the vessel ci same in section about as on the line a--a Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top view oi the vessel and 'its cover with all' mechanism removed and the shaft bearings upon the covery intersected a short distance above the cover. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top view oi 'a portion of the side of the vessel and a socket thereon for holding a certain frame bar. Fig. 4 is a vertical section and is reinforced by two strong metal hoops 2 and l3,- one of which may beclose to the top as in Fig; 5 and the other close to the bottom end as in Fig'. 7; or they may be a short distance from the top and bottom of the-vessehas in Figs. 1 ander. rlhe upper hoo or ring 2 may alsogextend only about hal way around the vessel, as in Figs. 6 and 8, since the rest of the top of the vessel is sti'ened by a strong metallic'cover 4,

which may preferably be cast; it covers fully` half of the top of the vessel and is provided with downward lugs 5 going inside the vessel and lugs 6 going close outside the vessel, the latter lugs are provided with thumb screws 7 which may either clamp the edge of the vessel against the inner lugs or may pass through the wall oi the vessel and against or even into the. inner lugs, so as to hold the cover firmly on the vessel.

Mounted in bearings 8, 9 and 10 upon the cover is a horizontal shaft ll having a hand crank 12, a tight ulley 13 and a loose pulley 14. 0n the shaiii is xed a bevel gear l5 meshing' with a bevel pinion 16, which is lixed on a central dasher shaft l?, on which is also fixed a cog-wheel 18. Meshing with said cog-wheel i8 are two smaller cog-wheels 19, i9", Ilined on two dasher shafts 20 and 20", which are provided with propellershaped dashers 2l, 2l* and have their lower ends journaled upon a horizontal bar 22, whose downward ends 23 are slipped into sockets 24 fixed at diemetrically opposite points of the inner side of the vessel. Said bar 22 is provided with a central hole through which the shaft l? passes and is journaled to the bottom 25 of the vessel. Such journaling preferably involves a conic stud 26 engaging a cavity in the end of the shaft and having a shoulder 27 drawn tightly down upon the bottom by a nut 28 on a stem 29 extendingy through the center of the bottom. The shafts 20 and 20X may be journaled on similar conic studs 26". (ln the lower end of the shaft 17, near the bottom of the vessel is secured the main dasher 30, which is also of the propeller type, having twisted or laterally inclined radial blades 3l, the same shape .as can be seen in the middle of the smaller dashers 21, 2l".

The edge 25y of the bottom 25 is preferably` turned downward and secured tothe Sliv body of the vessel so as to reinforce the portion of the vessel extending below the bottom and serving to support .the whole device` 32 is a vfaucet from which to draw mixed.

paint.

Whitelead or other ingredients to lbe mixed into paint ready for use, are placed in the vessel 1 and if the machine is of a smaller medium size, it is turned by the crank 12,

4the tight pulley ,13 serving as a fly-wheel;

and if power is available a driven belt may be put onto the pulleys and the crank 1-2 removed. When thus in operation the main dasher 25 will stir and throw the lead and other ingredients upward in a circular wave and the smaller dashers will throw that wave downward while also carrying the pantirom the walls of the vessel toward the center thereof and the paint near the arge dasher tends to make near the bottom 1 of the vessel, the paint which at first re- -ceived but little agitation from the inner ends of the blades of. the large d asher will be moved to the outer ends and other partsv of said blades and thus be evenly agitated and thoroughly mixed. In said mixing process by the three dashers the intermediate frame bar A22 renders good service by resisting a too free and regular rotation and circulation of the paint in the vessel, it being readily understood that an obstruction in any fluid current aids in stirring and agitatin the fluid. `For large machines, used at paint factories for making ready mixed paint, the crank 12 is omitted.

The opening 33 in Fig. 2 gives access to the inside of the machine for filling it and for inspecting the condition of its contents. If the machine is to he emptied and cleaned, the screws 7 are loosened andthe cover 19 lifted off, whereby the dasher shafts and dashers and the cross bar 22 are also removed from the vessel, and the latter ma be fully emptied and cleaned: Itis to facilitate such' cleaning that the lower shaft journals are made with conic supports, 26 and 26x, so they have nocavity for paint tol lodge in; the only cavities involved are in the ends.

of the shafts and are thus inverted so no paint can lodge in them.

The machine may also'be used as 'a churn for churning cream into butter.

What I claim is l. ln a machine of the kind described, the combination with a cylindrical vessel having a bottom.and a detachably secured cover partly closing its top, of a dasher shaft journaled in the cover and the bottom in central position of the vessel, a propellershaped dasher fixed on said shaft and having its blades moving near the bottom and the sides of the vessel, a horizontal bar having its ends detachably secured to the inner side of the lower portion lof the vesselother 2. n a machine of the kind described, the i combination with a cylindrical vessel having a bottom and a detachably secured cover partly closing its top, of a dasher shaft journaled in the cover andthe bottom in central position in the vessel, a; propeller-shaped dasher fixed on said shaft and having its blades moving near the bottom and the sides of the vessel, a horizontal bar having its ends detachably secured to theinner side of the lower part of the vessel,.other dasher shafts arranged parallel to the\ central shaft and having their lower ends journaled on the horizontal bar and their upper ends jour? naled inthe cover, propeller-shaped dashers fixed on said other dasher shafts, meshing cog-wheels fixed on the upper ends of all the dasher shafts and means for rotating one of the dasher shafts and thereby all of them, said means for rotation consisting of a bevel pinion fixed on the central dasher shaft, bearings fixed upon the cover, a hor-i zontal shaft journaled 1n the bearing, a bevel gear fixed on the horizontal shaft and meshing with the rst mentioned bevel gear, and means for turning the horizontal shaft.

In testimony whereof i aiiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

' i GUSTAV lVOSS.

itfitnesses:

Fnsi) HANDEL, FRANK SCnMnLzsn. 

